Gracenote Founder Rewriting History At Wikipedia

An anonymous reader writes "Gracenote founder Steve Scherf is busy again in his attempts to rewrite history after his recent interview at Wired. This time around he is aggressively deleting or seeking removal of any content on Wikipedia that discusses the controversy behind the commercialization of the formerly GPL'd cddb. Slashdotters may remember when cddb joined the Bad Patent Club back in 2000. Gracenote followed up by filing lawsuits against its customers for trying to switch to freedb and for alleged patent violations. Are there any Slashdotters out there who know the facts about Gracenote — its history, its business practices, its lawsuits? Wikipedia needs your help."

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JFK's assassination and Wikipedia

[BigBadBus]

Somewhat topical given the proximity of today's date to 11/22. This is from a mailing list, btw Col. Prouty is a leading ex-intelligence officer and JFK author: I would go further that wikipedia is being used as a tool to spread dis-information. I had a fight with them after I tried to keep correcting lies about Fletcher Prouty. Every time I would correct something, someone (mcadams & friends) would change it. I was threatened with being banned if I fixed any falsehood, as ?vandalization? I was also told ?maybe wikipedia isn?t for you? All the people who judge if you want third party intervention are kids... No one uses real names. Its almost who ever posts first will be regarded as the truth. Then they leave a little flag ?contents of this site are under dispute? but leave lies up. These lies can be small such as incorrect dates, etc. but just try to change them?Then they say well bring this up in the discussion area which is like a forum.

Re:Interesting guilt plea

[rednip]

If you think Fox News is the only source of "no facts whatsoever" on TV, you're stupider than you look. Well, Fox News is just a low hanging fruit that often masquerades well as a legitimate news source. Another 'fine' example is Rush 'water boy' Limbaugh, who actually admitted on his show to 'carrying the water' for the republican party, which was likely the most honest thing he had ever said. However anytime Anne 'happy widow' Coulter is on any TV program, the 'factual content' tends to drop more than anyone else.

BTW, for the record, I said "Seriously, part of being a 'responsible consumer of knowledge' from any source is knowing that the facts may be different than presented.", I do not limit my skepticism from any source, in particular Slashdotters who use 3rd grade taunts.